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CHRIS GASH: SCIENCE TIMES UPDATE

September 15, 2011

For Chris Gash, his weekly “Observatory” spot for the New York Times  Science Times never gets old. Here is a roundup of the past seven weeks of spots…Elephants may mingle outside their normal circle, but they always maintain a larger, stable social network; “Number sense” in children correlates with mathematical abilities later in life:

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New developments in object agnosia (disorder in which an individual cannot recognize ordinary objects); Coriander found to kill antibiotic-resistant food-borne bacteria:

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Honeyguide birdss will lay their eggs in other birds’ nests, and the hatchlings will then immediately kill their foster siblings so they can dominate the parents’ feeding; How memory origin evolves from childhood to adulthood:

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Scientists develop a new map for tracing ice movement in Antarctica:

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